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The New York Times Company

The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) is the publisher of The New York Times and operator of a portfolio of news, product-review, sports, cooking, and games products including The Athletic, Wirecutter, Wordle, NYT Cooking, and NYT Games. The company also runs a public developer program at developer.nytimes.com that exposes a family of read-only REST APIs over its newsroom content: article search, top stories, most popular, archive going back to 1851, best-seller and book-review lists, movie reviews, the Times Newswire firehose, the controlled vocabulary that powers Times Topics (TimesTags), the Semantic API, and a Geographic API that pairs Times geo-tagged content with the GeoNames database. All APIs share api.nytimes.com as the host, use a query-string api-key for authentication, and respond as JSON.

agent ready

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles The New York Times Company the way a machine reads it — 54 machine-readable artifacts across 15 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — The New York Times Company scores 56.0/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 56.0/100 · developing
Contract Quality 19.4 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile The New York Times Company

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for The New York Times Company. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 15

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

The New York Times Company Archive API

The Archive API from The New York Times Company — 1 operation(s) for archive.

The New York Times Company Content API

The Content API from The New York Times Company — 2 operation(s) for content.

The New York Times Company Content.json API

The Content.json API from The New York Times Company — 1 operation(s) for content.json.

The New York Times Company Events API

The Events API from The New York Times Company — 1 operation(s) for events.

The New York Times Company Lists API

The Lists API from The New York Times Company — 4 operation(s) for lists.

The New York Times Company Lists.json API

The Lists.json API from The New York Times Company — 1 operation(s) for lists.json.

The New York Times Company Most Popular API

The Most Popular API from The New York Times Company — 4 operation(s) for most popular.

The New York Times Company Movies API

The Movies API from The New York Times Company — 3 operation(s) for movies.

The New York Times Company Name API

The Name API from The New York Times Company — 1 operation(s) for name.

The New York Times Company Reviews.json API

The Reviews.json API from The New York Times Company — 1 operation(s) for reviews.json.

The New York Times Company Search API

The Search API from The New York Times Company — 1 operation(s) for search.

The New York Times Company Search.json API

The Search.json API from The New York Times Company — 1 operation(s) for search.json.

The New York Times Company Stories API

The Stories API from The New York Times Company — 1 operation(s) for stories.

The New York Times Company Timestags API

The Timestags API from The New York Times Company — 1 operation(s) for timestags.

The New York Times Company User Content API

The User Content API from The New York Times Company — 4 operation(s) for user content.

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Open Collections 10

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Archive

OPEN COLLECTION

Article Search

OPEN COLLECTION

Books API

OPEN COLLECTION

Community API

OPEN COLLECTION

Geographic API

OPEN COLLECTION

Most Popular

OPEN COLLECTION

Semantic API

OPEN COLLECTION

TimesTags API

OPEN COLLECTION

Times Newswire API

OPEN COLLECTION

Top Stories

OPEN COLLECTION

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Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

New York Times Company Context

33 classes · 15 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

The New York Times Company API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

The New York Times Company API Rules

10 rules · 6 errors · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 6

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

NYT Article

21 properties

JSON SCHEMA

NYT Best-Seller Book

14 properties

JSON SCHEMA

NYT Concept

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

NYT Media

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

NYT Movie Review

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

NYT Tag

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 3

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Article Structure

14 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Concept Structure

8 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Media Structure

8 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 10

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

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Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

New York Times Company Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

New York Times Company Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

New York Times Company Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

New York Times Company Agentic Access

27 operations

27 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for The New York Times Company — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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